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Steve Lawrence Stuck With Standards Despite Rock's Birth

Crooner was a hit solo and with Steve and Eydie

(Newser) - Steve Lawrence, a charismatic, smooth-voiced crooner who thrived for decades performing standards as a solo act and with his wife, Eydie Gorme, while rock 'n' roll exploded around him, died Thursday. He was 88. His son David said that he died at home in Los Angeles and that the...

Singer Steve Lawrence Doesn't Want Pity for His Latest News

83-year-old performer, half of 'Steve and Eydie' duo with late wife Eydie Gorme, has Alzheimer's

(Newser) - Steve Lawrence, the singer and performer who's best known as half of the musical duo Steve and Eydie, has Alzheimer's. Lawrence, who was married to Eydie Gorme for more than 55 years until her death in 2013 , announced the diagnosis in a letter released through his spokesperson Tuesday,...

Singer Eydie Gorme Dies at 84
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 Eydie Gorme 
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Singer Eydie Gorme Dies at 84

Steve and Eydie singer's career spanned half a century

(Newser) - Eydie Gorme, the fairer half of the Steve and Eydie husband-wife nightclub act whose career spanned half a century, died yesterday in Las Vegas of an undisclosed "brief illness," reports People . She was 84. Calling his loss "unimaginable," husband Steve Lawrence said in a statement that...

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